PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. M. Wilson, stationmaster at. Patoa, has been transferred to Lower Hutt.

A cable from London says Madame Melba received a remarkable ovation at the Albert Hall.

A Press Association telegram states that Mr. Albert Jackson, 8.A., has been nominated as the Wellington candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship.

The Governor-General held a levee at Government House, Auckland, yesterday, and left for Wellington last night. Lord Jellicoe has placed an order in Auckland for a small yacht, which he intends to sail himself in races in the harbor. —Press Association.

There has passed away a well-known figure amongst the Dunedin printing fraternity, in the person of Mr. E, W. Cliff, manager of the printing department of the New Zealand Tablet. For 17 years he followed his occupation almost without interruption.

Mr. George Carder, a colonist of 5a years' standing, died at Hobsonville liiat week, at the age of 78. Mr. Carder was a great-grandson of Sir John Moore. He arrived in Auckland from England in IStiS. aud became a successful business man.

The death occurred at the Wellington Hospital on Thursday of Mr. J. Grimwood, of Petone. 'Born in Suffolk, England, in 1844', the late Mr. Grimwood came out to New Zealand in 1858, settling in Oxford (Canterbury). In 1892 he went to the North Island, and after residing for nearly IS years in Dunnevirke, spent a decade in Petone. Mr. Raymond Grimwood (Eltham) is a son. Mr. C. H. Wyatt, for a number of years chief clerk of the Commercial Union Assurance Company at Wellington, has been transferred to the New Plymouth branch of Wie company. Prior to his departure he was presented with a silver salver by the general manager and staff of the head office as a mark of their esteem. Mr. Wyatt will b, e missed in Wellington as 'a member of the Operatic Society (says the Dominion).

The death is reported of Mrs. H. Hills, senr., of Kitham. Mrs. Mills was the relict of the late Mr. Harry Mills, and was- a native of Berkshire, England. She was born in Hungcrford, Berkshire, in the year 1537, and in 1873, with her husband, migrated to New Zealand in the ship Jessie Roadman. After spending a. few years in the Lower Hutt, during which time Mr, Mills was clerk to the Hutt Road JSoard, they removed to the Wairarapn, and engaged in farming pursuitD for eight years. Thence they went to Kitham, where Mrs. Mills had resided for the last 33 years. She was predeceased by her husband by 13 years. The descendants number eight, namely, Ml'. John Wm. Mills and Mrs. J. T. Goodrich (deceased), Miss S. A. Mills (Eltham), Mrs. C. H. Harrison (Ngaerc), Mr*. 10. Henn (Eltham), Mr. H. C. Mills (Kitham), Mr. James Mills (Mangatoki), and Mr. Edward Mills (Kaponga).—Argus.